Ecosocial Theory, Embodied Truths, and the People's Health

Ecosocial Theory, Embodied Truths, and the People's Health is a book that explores how population patterns of health reveal the intersections of lived experience and biology in historical context. It offers a counterargument to dominant biomedical and public health narratives attributing causality to either innate biology or decontextualized health behaviors and provides a framework to transform biomedical and population health thinking, practice, and policies to advance health equity.

\n Format: Hardback
\n Length: 352 pages
\n Publication date: 09 November 2021
\n Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
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Since the 1700s, intense debates in medicine and public health have revolved around whether sources of ill health can be attributed to individual factors or the broader body politic. However, what if health researchers instead focused on measuring how individuals biologically embody their societal and ecological context?

Ecosocial Theory, Embodied Truths, and the People's Health represents a groundbreaking exploration into analyzing how population patterns of health reveal the intricate intersections of lived experience and biology within historical contexts. Building upon Nancy Krieger's original ecosocial theory of disease distribution, this volume establishes new theoretical foundations regarding embodiment and health justice through concrete and innovative examples involving pathways such as workplace discrimination, relationship abuse, Jim Crow, police violence, pesticides, fracking, green space, and climate change. It offers a vital counterargument to dominant biomedical and public health narratives that attribute causality to either innate biology or decontextualized health behaviors, providing a critical step forward in understanding and addressing the structural drivers of health inequities and health justice.

By drawing insights from politics, history, sociology, ecology, biology, and public health, Ecosocial Theory, Embodied Truths, and the People's Health presents a bold and transformative framework for reimagining biomedical and population health thinking, practice, and policies. It aims to advance health equity across a planet facing numerous threats.

\n Weight: 398g\n
Dimension: 185 x 134 x 26 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9780197510728\n \n